nowhere she is a passionate articulate defender of conservative values and she's also been one of still lives policy institute's most popular speakers from many years and she's been speaking in the mentoring young women that we work with for decades and she has helped me out so many times at the institute, hall to the institute out so many times. the american conservative calendars with very different this year not only with beautiful women but beautiful seems of america and from march of 2013 and the quote on her page courage is the latter on

which all other virtues mount. other great ladies have spoken about courage as well with it. cade is to be talking about how despite the claims of unity when the west is dividing america with the radical policies. just earlier this week on cnbc she appears many times on radio shows and speaks of the country and and the clare booth policy loosens to do we are honored to have cade as a member of the board of directors when. she works for the conservative paper and is a student leader organizing campus events and when the giant state life and. she came to the young america's foundation of college and took a lecture program which was small

and pleaded to the biggest lecture program in the country. she left for some other important things and then she came back and served as a vice president for a number of years until quite recently. kate was also the chairman of the virginia republican party from 2003 to 2006, and in that capacity she garnered national attention when she led the charge against tax increases and expanding the role of government. the virginia republican party had been going through some rough times about the scandal that one of the leaders had done some -- before cade unauthorized but she straightened it out and said the parties for smooth sailing. she then served as the senator chief of staff and while she was working for governor allen as the chief education and health adviser that's when she recommended me for the virginia state board of education and he appointed me to that and got to work at that point because becky

was serving in the cabinet of george allen as well so we got to work with cade on the state level issues owls well. kate is the author of the new book right there called quote code divider in her chief of the fraud of hope and change." we are selling the book aside and she will be signing copies after she speaks. kate was born into a family of conservative leaders and activists in virginia. she's a graduate as i said she had extraordinarily wonderful children especially her youngest daughter who was one of the most gracious young ladies we've ever seen. the youngest activist in the cause please welcome kate

obenshain. >> thank you it's wonderful to be here. we are going to talk about courage i of the point you to these two wonderful ladies with me. what a joy it was to get to know becky when i worked in the allan legislation during the real revolution with a great restoration of our conservative ideals. they had been going through difficult time and george allen came in and just championed the great reforms of polishing and implementing academic standards, reforming welfare so that this crazy thing where you would have to work for your welfare benefits which now was completely a watered-down but becky was part of the revolution and i will tell you as the secretary of health and human resources, there was no issue that she wasn't willing to tackle and that is a top. for the conservatives. she was out there on the frontline during the entire administration and she was an inspiration for me and for a lot of other conservatives but

particularly for conservative women and i just want to think the key for service to the commonwealth and to the country. thank you. michaud life known for years and years when i started at the young america's foundation just having graduated from the university of virginia, and she is someone who has managed to combine career and family in the most professional and noble manner. she has three incredible young men as her son's and she's always put her family first, her husband and her boys but she also puts the cause of freedom first and that is something when i talk to groups of young women i want to impress upon you how important that is. i chose originally to stay home with my children but to still be involved. i was still on the state council of higher education, but my goal was to raise my children and then i got this crazy phone call

when i had four children under 53 ways and this precious little baby girl. i was so happy and life was like it was supposed to be and i got a very irritating phone call from george allen saying we need you to run for the state party chairman and virginia. georgetown when you can't say no probably more than once because he hasn't developed because he fights for who he believes in. they said the years tracing all over virginia fighting to the conservative ideas and this thing i want to impress upon you as hard as that was as the mom of young children i wouldn't change it because it is so important for us to get engaged

in the battle. if we don't nobody else will and we were passionate about conservatism and we have a unique degree of passion because we are mom's so many of us even if you are not, you are passionate but we are passionate because we want to pack liberty on not only in attacked passed on to our children and children's children, so even if you embrace that more traditional role and are looking forward to that, please do not think that you can get out of activism and out of being involved. we need you in this battle from here on out. it's too important. what we are standing up for is too important. i want to think the clare boothe luce policy institute. one of my favorite things is to travel around the country talking on college campuses because college students are on the front lines of the battle and it is so important what you all do standing up for young conservatives and giving them the courage that they need.

i did just write this new book that michele held up, the divider and chief the fraud is hope and change, and i did it because i was talking to kathryn lopez. i did an interview not long ago and she said why don't you like this? is it meant to be an awakening? i said you bet it is. it stuns me that half of the american population completely fell for this employee mantra of hope and change. the obama administration was going to be that transcendent administration that brought us all together. that is why barack obama earned the white house because he said it was granted a great uniter. remember that beautiful inaugural address and was glorious where he said to conservatives i want to listen to you especially when we disagree. nice, beautiful idea.

and he was going to meet with conservatives in congress once a week. the was agreed idea, too. he met twice. so, three days after that beautiful speech, the conservatives in congress came to the white house and they had a meeting and eric cantor, a congressman from virginia articulated the perspective on increasing taxes that we shouldn't do that and you know what obama said three days after? he said i won, you lost. about a week later he said i won the folks that got us into this mess to do a whole lot less talking and a lot more listening. you can talk a little bit but i want you to stay on the sidelines while we try to clean this up for you. unbelievable. gone with any notion of unifying the country of bringing us together. instead, they're came this steady mantra of attack and vilify the other side.

no ideas. it was no idea, just like his 2008 campaign for president was not idea based. was hope and change from speeches with no substance whatsoever. the only substance was that he was going to unify us, be that post partisan president. and yet, almost immediately it was conservatives are hostage takers. they are the enemy. they care only about millionaires and billionaires and not children with autism and down syndrome. now what was this approach? why did obama and his administration come in wanting to vilify the other side with this intense hatred? it was bringing to the administration that philosophy of a community organizer. for years obama said i am still a community organizer does that the national level. well, this is the one publication that i think obama brought to the administration if

you can even call it a qualification for being president that he was a community organizer. he was a darn good one. absolutely. he was known by his fellow community organizers as the master of agitation. this is really important because this is the essence of how he views the world. obama would go into a community and he would identify and any for that group, for that community and he would stoke their animosity and really generate this anger and even hatred and while ever ready is riled up hitting some organization or some organization he focused their attention on, he ran through his agenda. no discussion, no need for any debate or discourse, but it was all based on distract everybody, get them focused on an entity and then ran through whenever he want. that is exactly what he's done on the national level. the past four years there has

been no philosophical back-and-forth. no dynamic exchange of ideas. i read this book called of divider in chief not because i am attacking division in politics. i am all for it. anybody that watches fox news i love it. when it is based on ideas that is the promise of the country that we are free to have that dynamic and vigorous exchange. our fathers were not sitting around singing. they were duking it out with a very different philosophy and because they were able to have this feature will respect and have this, and it wasn't always respect but because they were able to fight it out based on ideas and philosophy, we now live in the greatest most prosperous nation in the face of the earth because their ideals, the best ideas were able to triumph, ideas that were not that great but that is what is happening. we are losing the ability for

reason to be free to combat bad ideas. do you ever hear the obama administration defending why it works to raise taxes on small businesses or individuals who are successful do you ever hear them say from an economic standpoint this is how we would generate more income and sustain it? no because it doesn't generate more income would generate less income to the end but it's indefensible and so instead of actually trying to articulate a defense of their economic policies, they rip us apart and divide us. the start of a lot fighting conservatives as heating poor people and the middle class. this whole class warfare thing ripping apart based on economics status i was sitting here watching obama give a speech theatre de actually a couple months ago and he said 12 times the middle class in this speech

what is with pigeonholing us into the middle class? he loves to say i want to help you americans, you little people was what he means, get into the middle class and stay there. first of all, why is it the president of the united states responsibility to decide which class i should be? i should have dreams to achieve whatever level of income and greatness that i want to and this country provides me the opportunity i have a good shot of achieving my dreams. plea by the rules. work hard and have some chutzpa and you can build it and can achieve greatness that this president instead tears us apart and you know what he says the problem is in our society? breathtaking greed of the few. that is an amazing thing to condemn those that have achieved

success in our society but he vilifies it so that he can run through the notion that we need to punish these people with higher taxes. there's something wrong with these people. they got their games so we must punish them. no economic rationale you have conservatives are giving for lowering taxes until we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world and the rationale for why that works like from an economic standpoint that produces more prosperity, how would works under ronald reagan and how jack kennedy did that. but you don't hear the same argument coming from this administration. they can't argue the fact is because the facts do not back them up. they also can't come forward and have an honest discussion about what their objectives are whereas conservatives will argue our objective is to elevate

everybody by increasing prosperity, by and reaching the private sector from overbearing not reasonable but overbearing the government regulations so that everybody can prosper. we believe there is an unlimited devotee for prosperity that it's a fixed amount, it's appalling and free but it's a slice of it and is never going to get any bigger that is and how we see things. but you don't hear the left articulating a response to that discussion because what obama wants to do is force the redistribution, and if he were honest about that, honest about his goal of not just equalizing everyone, but bringing them down because that is what happens when you try to equalize income you bring everybody down. if you were to be honest about that and give a philosophical defense, the american people would reject it resoundingly. so, instead she tries to turn a conservative and to the enemy

and let me tell you it is incredibly effective when it's not met with powerful courageous profound articulation of our ideas. and we have seen that when there is a vacuum on our side that he filled rhetoric just rams through and i look at one in particular since we are at the clare boothe luce policy institute i want to talk about this whole notion of the war on women. you know obama hasn't just kept his hateful rhetoric to the class warfare it's been dividing young people into old people, young people turning against businesses and corporations dividing us based on our come dividing as of course based on race. this was supposed to be a post ratio presidency yet racial tensions are high year than ever perhaps in this country in terms of trusting one another and thinking that is the one another. he's divided us based on

immigration, saying that conservatives are the enemy because we have a different philosophy on granting amnesty and that sort of thing. but the war against women is probably the most stark example of how he has tried to put americans against one another. now, i will say there probably is a war against women happening here but it's not coming from the conservative side. it's a shame that we are using words like war against women but i will get to that in a minute. the reality is this administration used that health and services mandate not to have a discussion about religious liberty and what religious organizations should be compelled to do but instead they use it as an opportunity to say we told you conservatives hate women, they want to take women back to the stone ages and

deprive them of their reproductive justice because the conservatives do not believe that religious organizations should be compelled to provide an insurance program that covers something as antithetical to their beliefs. so because of that very rational explanation of the conservative despise one minute they are engaged in an assault. this is the kind of language they use. conservatives are engaged in an assault. we are waging a war against women. their needs are increasingly under attack by conservatives. that's what they say. the language is pretty serious stuff but my favorite guy to give my favorite example of the war on women coming from the left is congresswoman sheila jackson lee. but sheila jackson lee talking about this conservative -- we are talking women because we hate women. our assault on women, sheila jackson lee said i think the

next act by conservatives will be dragging women of patient rooms into the streets screaming over the bodies as they get dragged out and getting access to women's health care. there is nothing to back out such a profoundly misleading statement that only is put out there to incite hatred and mistrust and mistrust of the goodness so that when in the issue comes up in congress or in the public discourse statements like this and statements that the president and the administration said would mollify objections from conservatives on any issue particularly issues related to the run the gamut between a and b abortion to birth control that

is all we seem to care about according to them. but it absolutely silences it is intended to silence our side and sometimes it is pretty effective, particularly among the conservative men. they look at this and they are like quote i guess i can't talk about issues relating to women. you know what? my gosh absolutely they have to talk about issues related to women because they affect everybody. women are concerned about the same thing the men are concerned about. but let's look at what the left is saying about women and how tolerant and open minded the left is. again and again, let's see, hillary, and i'm going to mention a conservative woman -- hilary rosen said of anne romney that she's never worked a day in her life because she is a stay at home mom. as the home mom and any mom knows well work much harder to

stay at those babies than it is to go to work. i will tell you that. it's very tough to be a stay at home mom. how about democratic chairmen, the chairman of the democrats' committee in south carolina. he's on the left, just a profound region little come and dick compared governor niki haley to ease the deal because the sixth eva braun. did you hear any one country that has paid all? know. ricky by the way suffered disproportionately as all conservative women do by the ridiculous character assaults, attack, attack when she was running for governor she was constantly accused of having an adulterous affair. there was not a single scintilla of evidence to back that up and in fact mckee said if you bring up one piece of evidence and out of this race yet nobody can bring up anything and yet the liberal media insist on

putting that and every single article for about the entire campaign to her character to it was wrong. it was an assault on women by the left. nobody. did the president pick up the phone and call mckee healy to see if she was okay after dick compared her to eva braun? no, he did not. like he called sandra fluke's parents to see if they are okay and proud? let me tell you what my mom would do if i testified for my need on unlimited contraception she wouldn't be proud. that is a reasonable conversation for us to have as a country. a rush limbaugh in the way that he brought up but nobody else was touching that with a 10-foot pole. but the notion that women are somehow entitled to unlimited birth control paid for by the government that is an issue that we should be talking about as a culture but we are not supposed to do that.

another region leftist, john walsh criticized the united states senator scott brown, criticized him in a television ad for the laundry because he was trying to be an honoree girl. how about that? you're not supposed to say that sort of thing. bill more has called sarah palin every man in the book and michele bachman every name in the book he read a david letterman has done it. my favorite, chris matthews has done it again and again and again. insulting women. they called her mentally retarded. they attacked sarah palin's daughter and she was 14. give me a break. nothing ever happened. it is profound hypocrisy and that is a theme that runs through my book is how incredibly hypocritical the left has been in ripping this country

apart. claiming to be the great champions and defender of women yet they would only defined liberal women and their policies or systematically wreaking havoc on the very groups they claim to be championing. women is the perfect example. the highest poverty rate as a result of the absurd economic policies of this administration. the job killing policies of this administration to the extreme poverty rate for women is at an all-time high that means those women in america better living below half of the poverty line we shouldn't have women living at below half the poverty line in this country at 7.5 million of them are. more women were not in the work force as of april, 2012. 53 million women were not in the workforce. of course the administration, no they didn't actually. i'm not even going to go through there. of the women are not getting their jobs back as fast as men,

and of course, skyrocketing gas prices, skyrocketing food prices are hitting those women harder than it's hitting the man and we don't hear any concerns from this administration, no empathy about how women are suffering right now. it's all about how conservatives want to attack them. there is no discussion. no concern about the economic situation that the women are currently in. it's also amazing to me how hypocritical this administration is and how it actually does treat women. supposedly conservatives want to launch an all-out assault. let's talk about the boys' club. that is what the white house has been known for. it's not a secret. i am not pulling this out of thin air. my blog has citation after citation. it was known to be in particularly in the beginning but things haven't changed the boys' club.

the white house communications director said she was, quote, shocked to find that obama's can be back in 2008 had more to do with the flat house in texas than feminism. cristina roemer who was the former head of the council on economic advisers to the president said she felt like, quote, a piece of meat every time she went to the oval office. christina roemer. many of women said they felt invisible during meetings with obama. they felt dominated by the men in their room and obama's difference to them. anita dunn said looking back this place would be in court for a hostile work place because if it all the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women. now, when a senior staffer went to barack obama and complained about, believe it or not, rahm emanuel's attitude towards women, i know it's shocking, his rough and chauvinistic manner

you know what obama's response was look, i really need rahm. that was his response. then as the environment continued to d-tn e-rate, finally obama got the women staffers together and had a dinner with them to address their concerns. the meeting began with obama looking at his watch saying are their genuine concerns i need to know about? i know i love your expressions, they are great. i wish they could be seen out there. again and again, she ignored the concerns of women. he ignred the concerns of wn who are going to be affected negatively by obamacare, all of the taxes that are going to hit the middle class, the medicine cabinet tax, the limitations on what we can put into our flexible spending accounts. but it is also the sheer way in which obama has patronized women that is so offensive and allies of the complete hypocrisy with

more women mantra. campbell brown on cnn had a peace ago about how paternalistic the president and his administration has been towards women. she said he makes reference to how women are smarter than men and it is also tired that kind of fake praise showered upon one who is easy to impress. she said he is having a hard time connecting with tens of millions of americans many of those who are women who feel economic opportunity is gone and they are losing hope. in an effort to bring them back mr. obama is employing a tone that can come across as breeding and even condescending. i love the sport. most women don't want to be patted on the head or treated as words of the state. they simply want to be given a chance to succeed based on their talent and skill. isn't that true? yet we are being treated as we

are words of the state or we should be. a prime example of a life of julia. on president obama's website the notion -- by the way it wasn't the life of bald, take that into account, it was julia to suggest that women in particular need the hand of government from cradle to grave reaching down and helping us so we can achieve some level of happiness. but without the government, we can't do it. by the way there is no man in the life of julia. she had a child that the man was nowhere to be seen. it's the selfish bicycle fame. again, and again, stephanie a couple weeks ago, an associate of obama and adviser to obama said women are not concerned over what happened in the last four years. i beg to differ. we are really concerned about what's happened over the last

four years. i was particularly appalled at something that was on obama's website i think last week that can come quickly after the outrage by conservatives but this whole notion of support, this administration and sorry it's rude, support this administration, quote, like your lady parts dependent to read that was on our presidents website come it was a cartoon and you can fall what -- find all of a website if you want confirmation he actually did this. i love dana she treated lightly after that i support this administration like one of my lady part depends on we conservatives call it a brain. it's incredibly patronizing to diminish when men in this way and assume their concerns are irrelevant, that they don't actually have them but that is what this administration has had

to do to ram through its philosophy. i won't even go into the part -- i will mention it briefly how this president is completely ignoring and enabling the real war against women in that's happening in muslim countries around the world. he talked about one of his primary foreign policy objectives to ensure reproductive justice and the world in all nations in a world that means abortion on demand, and yet do you ever hear him condemn islamic nations that will not allow women to step outside her doorstep without a male shopper roane? no, you never do. do you ever hear him condemn anything going on in afghanistan? we have shed our blood, and he never defense these girls that have acid thrown on them because they are going to school now or the notion that this religious party, a religious group in afghanistan issued a mandate and a proclamation that men are

fundamental and women are secondary. the president afghanistan endorsed of that ruling. it did this president ever use his enormous power and influence to say that is an assault on women on their dignity and on their basic rights. never. there has been dead silence from this administration. in fact the state department has actually said that they are not going to be involved. they said gender issues are going to have to take a back seat to other priorities. there is no way we can be successful if we maintain every special-interest and pet project. women are being slaughtered around the world in the name of islam, and yet this president says nothing about it. what kind of hypocrisy is that to suggest that conservatives want to assault the rights of women simply because they want to protect the rights of religious organizations to be able to practice and lift up

their faith? that is appalling. the reason he is doing it and the reason i wrote this book is to impress upon the american people there is a goal behind all of this. there is a goal to force through a very radical left agenda but there's also the goal that troubles me even more than that it's as troubling as it is its to randomly silence half of the american population whoever doesn't agree with him to get into the messiness of democracy that back-and-forth upon which we are founded and i would tell you this i think the obama ad patrician's conduct and the way they tried to divide us and for a bus apart is a ringing endorsement for conservatism and the fact that our ideas triumph every time they are put in direct contrast to the idea. don't ever think that he is not articulating his ideas because he doesn't have them.

the obama administration and leftists within have a very definite agenda. they have ideas. but they cannot talk about them because they would be rejected by the american people. their ideas in this incredible and inherent arrogance in the wisdom of government and the intellectual and the liberal elite over that of hard-working americans. i know that this country is far better than that, and i just pray that that 50% of the american people that is somehow olden to complacency or convinced that conservatives are filled with hate and rage, i pray they will look into what we believe and that they will cease to be convinced by this bankruptcy on the left by this sheer come these fishes tactics of destroying our character,

destroying our motives and we are and that the american people instead we got and say we a minute there are no ideas being talked about here except on the side of conservatism and their must be something very menacing that they are trying to hide. and i thank you the clare boothe luce institute and heritage foundation for making sure that those ideas will eventually triumphed. thank you so much. god bless you. [applause] >> what a great book. you need to read this book and by this book and share the insights. you know, the thing that hit me i watched this as closely as anyone but when you said they want to keep us in the middle class and the light flashed back to last night, the 90 minute debate and one participant who said middle class over and over again. the truth is most conservatives are middle-income and that is a

great thing. it's to keep us middle-income. that is the key to socialism ring you go to europe. we need to all the middle class. >> why should we all the affluent if we want to be? you should be double to -- >> middle-income, terrific. we have a microphone here. to microphones. if you wouldn't mind would you give your name and affiliation and speak up the microphone so it can all be recorded on c-span? thank you. >> lots of hands shooting up. >> at the democratic national convention they mentioned we want to help people get to them it's not just obama but it's this whole administration that wants to keep people pigeonholed in certain classis. >> i am an intern at the heritage foundation, and what

advice would you give to argue with young women in their 20s that have been brainwashed by the other side? what would you recommend saying to convince them otherwise? >> well you have to talk with them about ideas and question that. questioning people was probably the best way to get them to wake up and just talking to them again and again until their eyes glaze over doesn't work. you have to ask them questions why do you believe that? because he will who are so young realize what's happened on college campuses. you have been brainwashed literally not just in college but in grade school, middle school, you've been totally, utterly brainwashed. there are speech codes on college and as is where if you stand in this square circle you may say whatever you want. if you step outside of that square circle and you are bound by the speech code if you violate you can be sent to sensitivity training so a lot of what you want to say to these

young women is going to shock them because you are not allowed to actually see some of those things on the campus because they can be perceived to be insulting to the persecuted groups which by the way does not include the conservative women. we are not counted and neither are you like many other neither are you christians or jews but pretty much everybody else is subject to those speech codes. what i said if i made an offhand comment about sandra when i say that on college campuses even among conservatives there is a collective gasp because i am not allowed to say that on college campuses. they want to shut us down so it is a painful process to try to awaken our young friends but you must. you've got to try to talk to them. look for issues that you can find a consensus on. there was ronald reagan's defense way of bringing people to his perspective. please don't go in there and think about the most incendiary issue that the nation is thoroughly split on and use that

issue as your core issue to try to bring people to conservatism. i would talk about free market economics. this is one argument i would start with how ronald reagan when he became president by the way how he lowered that highest income tax brackett from 70%, it was 70%. he has the right to 40% and that is only the beginning. 70%, ronald reagan was able to lower it to 28%. and the left would say my god the government isn't going to have any revenue what are you going to do about the deficit? income due to the federal government the revenue to the federal government doubled to redoubled for that income tax bracket. it works. why did have an? because of course more people are free to try to achieve prosperity. more to the private sector for businesses to grow and expand into businesses were in courage.

regulations were rolled back and so prosperity encourage and in sood so use those facts that are indisputable and presented them and you know what you will see the great awakening taking place and give them books that will start to open their mind about relevant topics a lot of people talk about. people come to conservatism through books by sean hannity, mark levin to get some of the books you see out there, rush limbaugh on the front pages that is the first introduction to conservatism, share those books with them. yes? >> select i'm also an internet the heritage foundation. i just had a follow-up question about using the skyrocketing prices women more than men. robert has a piece out on marriage and how that reduces child poverty and he says it was

an absence of married fathers in the home is that tied to what you meant when you said it hits women more? >> yes i was talking about a high rate of poverty among women right now. and even these women who are not in poverty are right above the poverty line. so obviously the gas prices that have doubled, more than doubled over the past four years could create in some places looking at troubling the gas prices. that is devastating to a single mom, three kids, trying to get their kids to school, trying to get to work. that is actually something that can stop them in their tracks and is completely debilitating. the cost of food for these women who are you the right on the line of poverty were in poverty but absolutely the absence of fathers and homes, the absence of a stable families has so much to do with increasing levels of poverty among women. that is one of the best indicators of success is whether

or not you are married and stay married. we have seen under this administration the literal explosion in entitlement programs and we are not supposed to talk about that either because that makes us racist or sexist. we have got to talk about that. a society that is somehow dependent on a government alexis de tocqueville warned us once the majority of the people become dependent on the government, the democracies and held. we have to wake up to that fact we are not saying half of the population is lazy by the way we are just saying that the government is trying to insnare them and enslave them in the dependency on government and the government doesn't scale itself back willingly. we have to do it. the government is greedy and it wants people to be dependent upon it because it knows best. the left knows best. we have to champion the rights of the individuals to have that opportunity for prosperity. watering down welfare requirements that this administration has done, that is

an assault. i will use that word. on those that are in poverty because it discourages them from seeking that independence to suggest that running errands for a neighbor qualifies as work, i don't think so. i don't think so. that isn't real reform. i am katherine rodriguez at the clare boothe luce institute. i know you know that and the clare boothe luce institute some of the students in the rule also have experienced this but sometimes being a conservative campus activist even as a woman can feel like a really only thing especially when you are confronted with feminists surround you and for some reason of like women need that extra push, so i am wondering if there are any words to support the encouragement that he could offer to the young women here and also the young women who are watching clacks >> absolutely. young women do need an extra

push. when i was elected chairman of the republican party of virginia, i didn't think anything of being the first woman. i really didn't. it's very rude of me. i didn't think anything, but what ever. and the media went nuts of course. they felt was appalling. but then i went around the state, and i met with sort of my getting to know you. everywhere i went to the wind came up to me literally in tears saying i never thought i would see the day when a woman was the chairman of the republican party of virginia. a completely changed my thinking about women and leadership roles. when in standing up for what they believe in. and i realized sometimes we need an extra push. i started this immediately after that. i started leadership training program for women and on the first day of the class, i asked how many of you would consider running for office some day? one hand went up and i asked why not? what's with you guys why

wouldn't you run for office? the response universally i like being in the supportive role. i get that. it's a very natural place for a lot of women. nurturers, i want to be in the role that conservatism means to promote women. they are the majority of the american population, and we need women if our ideas are going to triumph. so, consequently more women need to be involved and more women need to be in leadership positions because you flipped through and you only see white men representing conservatism, sometimes that is turned off for women. we've seen people like they are and get introduced sometimes to new ideas that we. we need to be championing our women. but it is a very lonely thing to be a conservative woman, per go whether you are on campus or not that is why the groups like clare boothe luce are so important we need that support. we need the defense because sometimes our conservative brethren are not always run to

our defense like the need to. offering sarah palin of is a good example. i actually don't really care what people think of conservatives whether they love her or not, defend her because she is -- when she's attacked for personal reasons, defender. when michele bachman is brutally ripped to shreds by some of these canadians, that's always there excuse to defend her. she is one of the smartest women in congress. she is courageous. she has stuck her neck out. these women are sticking their necks out. we have precious grows a friend of ours as an activist in the pacific, she's trying to start up a young america's for freedom chapter and the school crashed down and said no you may not start a yaf chapter. it's hysterical. we let some of these leftists' groups start out with freedom being institute on this campus to get she is suffering right

now. she is being assaulted by all sides. but she is a courageous young woman. she just signed a peace yesterday on fox news dhaka, the was great. ashley brock well. but clare boothe luce has run to her defense and so has the young america's foundation to be that some important that we conservatives stand up and it is also important that the conservative women have a sign of steel and the skin of and armadillo. you will actually be called every name in the book. prepare yourself for that. but you know what that means as margaret thatcher said? i am encouraged when they start calling me names because it means they have not a single argument left. it means you are winning. the can you smiling today that is exactly what we need you to do. it is your moment when the attacks began. you can either run from the arena which is their objective because conservative women are a tremendous threat. and this whole war, one is intended to get us out of the arena. those of us who champion our ideas, particularly women.

when that attack comes, you have that choice. you can flee or you can stand strong. you can whether the attacks and still at the end of the standing. and people will respect you. and they will listen to your ideals, and you will have furthered freedom. you have had this tremendous impact. remember our founding fathers, and all that they were willing to suffer. they were subject to treason. they had committed treason that they were willing to stand up for what they believe in. i hope we are not going to have to stick our neck out subject to them but look, we are on a very similar -- we are on a very similar position to that of our founding fathers. we are sticking our necks out, not for publicity, not for money, but for this great god-given notion of freedom, because we believe it is for rookie of our defense. call me any name you want. it pales in comparison to what my mission is to promoting and

protecting freedom for my children. bring it on. yes, sir? >> i write for the pakistani spectator i've worked on the hill and you have worked on the hill. sheila jackson is a very tough lady that i remember after september 11th she was the only one that opposed the other involvement in afghanistan. and today you could see that we are spending $2 billion. what are we getting -- you think that this may be has some special insight that the whole country was not able to see that she was able to perceive what would be the end? on p.m. from that part of the world and i feel like we are wasting our money in that part and pakistan is in general are -- >> thank you for the question.

>> i look forward to comparing and i experienced that except a few that are [inaudible] they are a lot more conservative especially in terms of -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt you but i think that we are really getting the time to look in the back. tell me what your question is. >> you are getting upset? >> no, i just need your question because we are going to wrap up. >> at one point it is absurd, i will take it from there. one reason why it is absurd this whole notion that conservatives are not to get and one group that has been systematically undermined by this administration economic policies

and sheila jackson lee and some others in the congressional caucus a few years ago stood up and said this is not working. this administration's policy isn't working. there hording poor people coming and you know what barack obama said? he said the enough of this morning. take off your bedroom slippers and put on your marching shoes. this is extreme arrogance and condescension. all of the groups are suffering under the obama administration. for the sufferings of americans. about the economic policies that has gotten us into this mess in the first place. thank you also much for being here. i look forward to seeing and talking to you afterwards but thank you for being here and thank you to the clare boothe luce foundation.

[applause] >> cade has been a speaker so many times that our usual gifts don't work. >> coffee mugs. i love them. >> we got her an original copy. have you seen this clacks you are going to love it pitted it's an old movie. >> my boys will love watching it. estimates still produced. it was a recent redo of the movie. it's not anywhere near as good as the original. the funny one about this is the entire test isn't a man in the play. but the play is all about men. we know about this. >> kate, on behalf of the heritage foundation, we have a few items we want to give to you. you know, our own ed meese, the

former attorney attorney of the united states had a contribution to this is a book good for women as well as men and a great reference. then you just wanted to mention as we close out mrs. thatcher's birthday is this weekend so we have for you stand up here come down to the front so everyone can see it we have a poster for you. >> beautiful. my two favorite people. >> we have a poster for every one that is here today. there will look like this and then we also have for you a copy of the speech that mrs. thatcher gave on kurdish and she gave it interestingly enough of the heritage foundation event the occasion was the presentation of the clare boothe luce award to ronald reagan.

we have a lady of courage here today speaking to men and women of courage. who stand for principle and we can give gifts that honor the two of our favorite heroes, margaret thatcher and ronald reagan. >> thank you. >> thanks, michelle and kate, it's been a privilege for us to work to get over these last number of years and to have this conservative women's network month leave and where we bring together outstanding women leaders and future leaders. mostly women that the occasional man who is welcome, too. now i would like to ask you to join us for lunch out here in the lobby and thanks to the to heritage in terms who had the microphones to a committee of the book signing. but kate has books that she will be happy to sign. november for the book tv will sit down with social media

writer the targets of the drug war are wilfong targets. that was the lesson for me as a journalist. i think that law enforcement on all levels is that they are serve and protect and help. the ones that i have met on all levels and in the course of the research for this book were generally some of them believed and realize it is just a job and they're sending taxpayers' money but nonetheless, people are trying to do their job. so the problem is that law enforcement is we need to turn off the 9 million domestic dollars going to so-called enforcement for the tax dollars and almost no effect on the

supply and demand not news to anybody in this room, but the white american mainstream is looking at i was in a place in mexico where the cowboy hat and ladies in this post office think barack obama was born and when they asked me with the book was about and i tell them it is an economic and social analysis of why the end of the drug war would be good for america we failed. the response is when are the tragedy's in mexico. it's not that dangerous compared to the polls and the math. when are we going to stop arresting people for pot. left wing, right wing, they will go on this for crying out loud. the truth is black-and-white. it's dangerous for me as a journalist with two decades experience to sound too much of a cheerleader about any particular issue. you people are going to think i am cheech or maybe woody harrelson. the reality is from a journalistic perspective it is black and white civilians we can

put back into our economy while hurting the cartels. i know it is up to 70% of the cartel's. but the fact is quite a lot of organized crime's are not from the heroine's of the mess, we can have american farmers growing dissent taxing it and on the industrial side but north dakota back. not to cut the's agricultural commission is begging to put this plant back to work for america's factories, clothing and energy. i went to a sustainability test of a few years ago for my previous book where i was giving a talk and the other speaker was the usda expert on biofuel. smart lady. she told me about all kind of biofuels that i haven't heard about. one starts with a jay, it filters toxics out of the soil. a great, great biofuel.